Georgia Republicans believe themselves invulnerable
In politics as in sports, it’s dangerous to get cocky.
And Georgia Republicans have gotten cocky. They have come to feel invulnerable and complacent, convinced that their constituents’ intense dislike of Democratic policies at the national level has given them a free hand to do as they wish here in Georgia, without consequence or backlash.
Ethical missteps, bad judgment, failure to govern — they believe that none of it matters as long as those magic words “Barack Obama” retain the power to distract and anger Georgia voters.
Want proof? Let’s review events just from the first eight months of 2011.
The year kicked off with the revelation that House Speaker David Ralston had taken his family and staff on a $17,000, all-expense paid holiday trip to Europe, courtesy of lobbyists for a high-speed rail company. In our much-reviled Congress, such behavior would result in severe censure or even removal from office, but here in Georgia it barely raised an eyebrow. In fact, Ralston continues to argue that limits on lobbyist gifts to politicians are not necessary given the fine, upstanding character of those we elect to public office.
There were also no repercussions when the chairman of the Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee, Jack Murphy of Cumming, was sued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for being grossly negligent in his role as a director of a failed bank in Alpharetta. Murphy is now barred from involvement in any FDIC-insured institution, but inexplicably, he has been allowed by his fellow Republicans to retain his role overseeing the state’s banking industry.
Murphy’s counterpart in the state House, Banks and Banking Committee chair Greg Morris, was also fined $5,000 this year by the FDIC for violating regulations as a director of an Ailey bank. He too has been allowed to stay in his leadership role overseeing Georgia’s deeply troubled banking industry.
Not surprisingly, neither Morris nor Murphy has shown interest in investigating why Georgia continues to lead the nation in bank failures or whether the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, charged with regulating state-chartered banks, failed in its duties. Given that 17 of the nation’s 68 bank failures in 2011 have occurred here in Georgia, costing the FDIC a total of $1.549 billion so far this year, their studied avoidance of the problem is appalling.
But again, they feel no public pressure to do better, so why should they?
Then there was the scandal in June, when the executive secretary of the state ethics commission was given her walking papers and her sole investigator stripped of her job. Those events occurred immediately after the two sought to subpoena records from the 2010 campaign of Gov. Nathan Deal. Again, there were no repercussions. Overall, GOP leaders have slashed the commission’s budget by 42 percent since 2008, even as they have burdened the agency with new record-keeping duties. They have also stripped the agency of rule-making powers available to almost every other agency in state government, all the while claiming to be horrified at alleged abuses of power in Washington.
I haven’t even mentioned the coup against Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle by his fellow Republicans in the state Senate, which basically left that body rudderless, or the embarrassing financial shenanigans of Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers and his business partner, U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, or the continuing efforts of GOP legislators to empower themselves at the expense of local government officials. And who knows what the rest of the year will bring?
Once politicians feel themselves unaccountable, there’s no telling what they might do.
– Jay Bookman
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Southern Comfort
August 23rd, 2011
7:56 pm
RW @ 7:37
Thasss just wrong!!!!
Bruno
Nice groove @ 7:45. Hearing about Nick caught me way, way off guard. I didn’t even know he was sick. I’m waiting for TV One to do an episode of Unsung on that duo. They’ve had a major impact on R&B for a long time.
josef
August 23rd, 2011
7:56 pm
GLL
“The lefties will always support bigotry and hate. ”
No, lefties won’t “always,” and neither will “righties.”
Doggone/GA
August 23rd, 2011
7:56 pm
“I’ll agree with that since you did say “sometimes!” Not, as someone else has posited, “invarably!””
when was the last time you posted something complimentary to Redneck?
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
7:56 pm
So who gets more blog glory, josef for being comment #1000 (bottom of the page), or me for being comment # 1001, top of the page??
@@
August 23rd, 2011
7:57 pm
Redneck:
Who does he think he is, @@?
I beg your pardon…I speed on backroads. Only thing in danger of losing their life is an armadillo or two.
Nasty little scavengers. They’re only valuable as roadkill. Some people put out birdfeeders, I put out armadillos. Birds love ‘em.
Doggone/GA
August 23rd, 2011
7:58 pm
“Haven’t given you that power yet!”
that’s fine. I wouldn’t want it even if you offered.
Soothsayer
August 23rd, 2011
7:59 pm
“Give me a beauty queen who understands the rules of the game. Give me a beauty queen like Kathy Sue Loudermilk, who won the coveted Miss Collard Festival Queen title seven years running back home, breaking Cordie Mae Poovy’s string of four in a row. That’s not the only string Kathy Sue broke. When the one that held up the top of her swimsuit snapped, that’s how she ousted Cordie Mae in the first place.”
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“For years, I thought drive-in theaters were for watching movies out-of-doors. Then I went to one with Kathy Sue Loudermilk, bless her heart. She was a lovely child and a legend before her sixteenth birthday. She was twenty-one, however, before she knew an automobile had a front seat.”
–Lewis Grizzard
Hey! 2 for 1! Don’t say you didn’t get your money’s worth!
josef
August 23rd, 2011
8:00 pm
Doggone
Never. Don’t have anything positive to post to TruthBe either…
Doggone/GA
August 23rd, 2011
8:00 pm
“So who gets more blog glory, josef for being comment #1000 (bottom of the page), or me for being comment # 1001, top of the page??”
I guess you’ll have to wait for Dave R to answer that
Doggone/GA
August 23rd, 2011
8:00 pm
“Never. Don’t have anything positive to post to TruthBe either”
then “invariably” was correct after all
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
8:01 pm
Though I’ll likely lose any last shred of credibility for putting this one up, can’t memorialize Ashford and Simpson without this Chaka Khan number:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlSXudl6wTg&feature=fvst
AmVet
August 23rd, 2011
8:01 pm
“Maybe RC = AmVet.”
Oh yeah B, like I could pull that one off. My writing style is esoteric, satiric and sometimes acerbic but never terribly clever!
GREAT early soul/R&B jams done by Ashford and his wife. Keep on playing them, that’s how they live on…
Good Little Liberal
August 23rd, 2011
8:02 pm
Josef
Pick up Demonic by Ann Coulter. incredibly funny, but about 1/5th of the book is references. You will be made aware of things you never knew.
Soothsayer
August 23rd, 2011
8:02 pm
“Oh yeah B, like I could pull that one off. My writing style is esoteric, satiric and sometimes acerbic but never terribly clever!”
AmVet: I knew that was a non-starter from the git-go.
out of the blue
August 23rd, 2011
8:03 pm
Here ya go Josef,,,,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17u9mxdvQEo
Take it for whatever it may mean to you
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 23rd, 2011
8:05 pm
josef@7:47 pm
Doggone
I admit that I’m a knee jerk reactionary…other people don’t…
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Josef I admit you’re a knee jerk reactionary. Are you happy now.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 23rd, 2011
8:08 pm
Wonder if Cantor will demand spending cuts in exchange for any federal disaster relief required for his district after the earthquake as he did for Joplin, Missouri? Or is this disaster different and the relief does not need to be “paid for”?
josef
August 23rd, 2011
8:08 pm
RW
Put TruthBe in with that and it might be worth investigating…personally I think all three are Andy in mufti…
Doggone…
The Dave one…yeah!
GLL
I read it…I don’t much care for her or what she thinks…she’s another one who’s got a shtick and it pays her well…
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
8:08 pm
An intentional non-starter, Sooth. RC could possibly be a woman writer. Matti is creative enough to pull it off, though I’m sure it’s not her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Llt-7PIUs
Jm
August 23rd, 2011
8:09 pm
Question for jay
Do u feel msnbc has a shred of credibility left after putting al sharpton, an activist without ANY journalism training, in their lineup?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 23rd, 2011
8:09 pm
Well, I never meant to create no war. All I got to say is I’ve been around the AJC blogs for alot more than five years. I started off with Wooten but when he went all senile and then got booted out I moved to Bookman. And I’ve been a Southrener alot longer than some of you yankees that think you’re Southreners now. Anyhow, it’s about sack time, but before I go, I just want to invite all you folks that don’t like me to kiss my redneck ASS. I’ve seen you show up and I’ll see you go away. You need a life real bad. I make a exception for josef, since he does that all the time anyway. I don’t want to catch the gay.
Good Little Liberal
August 23rd, 2011
8:10 pm
Obama’s job guy, Immelt is moving a huge airline contract to China. GE is VERY good for the economy . . .. . of China.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 23rd, 2011
8:10 pm
RC is actually Jay in drag
Good Little Liberal
August 23rd, 2011
8:11 pm
josef
it’s not what she thinks, its the list of facts that she provides that prove that what she thinks is completely acurate.
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
8:12 pm
An early hit for Gladys Knight by A & S:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6B5UNTp1k
Good Little Liberal
August 23rd, 2011
8:13 pm
Redneck Convert (R–and proud of it)
josef had actually spoken very highly of you just a couple of days ago.
It’s a shame that you don’t know who your allies are.
Kamchak
August 23rd, 2011
8:14 pm
RC (R–apoi)
Pleasant dreams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhpHZ85Ozk
Soothsayer
August 23rd, 2011
8:16 pm
“An intentional non-starter, Sooth. RC could possibly be a woman writer.”
Bruno, I think you’re wrong there. I think RC is educated — possibly a retired doctor or veterinarian — who like me is a “sports car in a Monster Truck world,” i.e., a person living in a sea of bigoted, backwards-thinking rednecks. I think his parodies are in reaction to the backwards-thinking World he sees around him. I can relate because I live in the same surroundings. I wouldn’t dare open my mouth out here where I live. It would be suicide. I welcome RC’s parodies. That’s my opinion and it’s a good one.
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
8:17 pm
Produced by Nick Ashford:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6B5UNTp1k
I’m guessing they made a few bucks before it was over.
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
8:23 pm
who like me is a “sports car in a Monster Truck world,” i.e., a person living in a sea of bigoted, backwards-thinking rednecks.
Sooth–I could be going out on a limb here, Sooth, but I’m guessing you just got on josef’s sh*t list.
josef
August 23rd, 2011
8:26 pm
Duk-sha-nee U-ni-lu-tsv-hi
You don’t have to worry about catching the “gay…” You’ve already got a terminal case…you’re a tired, old stereotypical b*tch queen, flapping your wrist and just a’screaming hateful negative meanness in a falsetto…
Soothsayer
August 23rd, 2011
8:27 pm
“Sooth–I could be going out on a limb here, Sooth, but I’m guessing you just got on josef’s sh*t list”
To imagine that all Southerners are enlightened, intelligent, compassionate, knowledgeable individuals is ludicrous on its face. Southerners here are different than they are in Buckhead.
Curious Observer
August 23rd, 2011
8:27 pm
I suspect josef is the embodiment of the end of one of Faulkner’s novels:
“Why do you hate the South?”
“I don’t hate it! I don’t hate it! I don’t!”
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 23rd, 2011
8:28 pm
Josef – how has back to school been so far?
Soothsayer
August 23rd, 2011
8:28 pm
josef: if you were to make a joke out of what he said, you completely disarm him. Like I said, he plays you like a cheap fiddle.
josef
August 23rd, 2011
8:30 pm
Bruno
Not to worry…Sooth does have some interesting things to say from time-to-time and has good taste in music…now, as for a sports car in a monster truck world? There’s your sign…
Southern Comfort
August 23rd, 2011
8:31 pm
Damn josef!!!
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
8:31 pm
Alright, moving on, I feel like hearing some Fripp. Sooth, you like “North Star”??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeRJQ8T4r98
Soothsayer
August 23rd, 2011
8:31 pm
Anyhow, all this discord has done upset my stomach. (Couldn’ta had anything to do with that Vodka I done been drinking) So, I gonna leave you all with this one. Enjoy if you got ‘em. If not, well, you might enjoy too!
josef
August 23rd, 2011
8:37 pm
Sooth…
I’m not so sure how different they are…got long roots there and live in Buckhead, too…
curious…
Well, I did get to sit at “lying ole drunk’s” knee as a child!
common sense…
Got a really great bunch of kids this year…getting to teach Spanish to the native speaking fourth and fifth graders…get to do my own curriculum…also working with the Kindergartners…great bunch there, too…other parts of the job? Well, up and down…the spies from all over are a pain in the a33…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 23rd, 2011
8:41 pm
A spokesman for Washington National Cathedral says at least three of the four pinnacles on the central tower have fallen off and the central tower appears to be leaning
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What a shame for such a magnificent structure.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 23rd, 2011
8:43 pm
OK, to settle the dispute, it is DEFINITELY better to be at the bottom of the page (1000) than the top of the page (1001).
But if you could pull off both . . . .
middleground
August 23rd, 2011
8:45 pm
if the folks left that where just here for welfare and college tuition, our employment problem would disappear overnight.
Stop giving away our honey as you are only attracting bugs.
josef
August 23rd, 2011
8:45 pm
Keep
First Haiti, now this….is Charleston next? Looks like that mid Atlantic Rift may be getting restless and that’s not good….
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
8:47 pm
Just something about the bottom of the page doesn’t sound as majestic as the top of the page……
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 23rd, 2011
8:49 pm
Felt that e’quake in Cleveland today. Strange feeling
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
8:49 pm
.is Charleston next?
Charleston, as in the Charleston which boasted one of the largest, if not the largest, Jewish population in all of the US around the time of the Civil War.
And josef thinks I have no background……
Jm
August 23rd, 2011
8:49 pm
Obviously a very serious discussion here tonight
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
8:47 pm
Just something about the bottom of the page doesn’t sound as majestic as the top of the page……
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Jm
August 23rd, 2011
8:50 pm
Msnbc. Not a news network
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
8:50 pm
getting to teach Spanish to the native speaking fourth and fifth graders…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWzKvWrHj3c
out of the blue
August 23rd, 2011
8:50 pm
Duk-sha-nee U-ni-lu-tsv-hi
You don’t have to worry about catching the “gay…” You’ve already got a terminal case…you’re a tired, old stereotypical b*tch queen, flapping your wrist and just a’screaming hateful negative meanness in a falsetto…
‘Duk-sha-nee U-ni-lu-tsv-hi”
I have no clue to what that means, nor your ramblings on about some bitch queen….
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 23rd, 2011
8:51 pm
Now, now josef…we know that 100% of govt scientists don’t agree so obviously there is nothing to be concerned about.
Ironically, back in March following the devastating earthquake in Japan, Rep. Cantor stood by the Republican budget, which would cut funding from disaster warning systems like the U.S. Geological Service (USGS). According to the AP, Republican budget number crunchers had toyed with cutting the USGS altogether, but settled for $27 million in cuts this year as part of the draconian Ryan budget.
Seems Mother Earth is telling Republicans something…. after Jindal the Page spoke agains monitoring volcanoes.. volcano erupted in Alaska.
Gunluvr
August 23rd, 2011
8:56 pm
Well what do you expect? Our state is breaking into red & blue factional camps that are satisfied with the status quo and everybody’s out for himself. It is what it is. Get use to it and accept it.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 23rd, 2011
8:56 pm
Bruno, don’t know how old you are, but when filling the gas tank of the car as a kid, and not having the electronic wonder of the credit or debit card being taken care of at the pump, the coolest thing was to be able to stop the pump at the EXACT dollar amount. Double zeroes!
You were a real twerp if you went over by a penny.
Hence, the special recognition for the bottom of the page, as it produces the almighty double zeros!
josef
August 23rd, 2011
8:56 pm
out of the blue
Didn’t expect you would…
Bruno…
Charleston and the Jewish population? Read that chapter, did you?
Good fight…
Those cuts to the USGS…Ben Franklin is rolling over in his grave! He would have loved that bunch…
UAW
August 23rd, 2011
8:59 pm
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will join thousands of union members at Labor Day festivities in Detroit.
Obama will deliver remarks at a Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Central Labor Council, the White House announced today.
I believe one of Forrest Gump’s quotes are appropriate here….
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 23rd, 2011
9:01 pm
Oh, and doing on the fly (not creeping up to it one cent at a time) meant you were a pro!
‘Course, when gas was under a buck, hitting the right amount on the fly was a lot easier than it is today!
Dusty
August 23rd, 2011
9:01 pm
RedNeck….pooo
He’s nothing but another liberal trying to act like a conservative by his falsetto imitation of a line of people who were never fools like RedNeck. He was interesting for a while but repetitious folly gets tiresome and obvious.
The South is noted for its great writers. If RedNeck tries to be one, he missed it a mile. He’s a phony and phonies don’t go over good in the South. Josef is just expressing his disdain for a phony using the South as a foil. It is tacky!!
Schrodingers cat
August 23rd, 2011
9:01 pm
Sooth -”Southerners here are different than they are in Buckhead.”
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You mean to say Buckhead doesn’t rep the south?….who knew?….I’ll add …how so?
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
9:05 pm
the coolest thing was to be able to stop the pump at the EXACT dollar amount.
Hey, you’re talking to a Hess Station veteran here. Xmas Day, 1980, colder than a witch’s ______.
Dusty
August 23rd, 2011
9:05 pm
Heyward just made a GRAND SLAM. Yippeee, that guy has gotten over his slump Go BRAVES!!!
Schrodingers cat
August 23rd, 2011
9:06 pm
Dave R – the coolest thing was to be able to stop the pump at the EXACT dollar amount. Double zeroes!
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Preach it…I can still do it 75% of the time….spent too much time as a Phillips 66 fuel mule back in the days of full service…i did it for access to the lift and tools for the hot rod…good times
md
August 23rd, 2011
9:07 pm
Bottom or top?? The better half seems to like both…………..
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 23rd, 2011
9:08 pm
I did two stints. Texaco and Hafners (It kicks!) as a kid.
josef
August 23rd, 2011
9:08 pm
Cat
Well, there is Old Buckhead, Real Buckhead, Buckhead Wannabe and Faux Buckhead…we know who’s who!
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 23rd, 2011
9:09 pm
Dusty, this isn’t a cake you’re talking about; it’s baseball. You don’t “make” a grand slam, you “hit” a grand slam.
md
August 23rd, 2011
9:10 pm
A lot harder hitting the zeros these days when that 1 cent buys a drop……………..
Mick
August 23rd, 2011
9:11 pm
tsk…tsk…all this hatin on the redneck convert, what ever happened to humor? This is a blog and it seems to make some peoples skin quite thin..personally, I think that dude is a hoot and he should just keep on truckin it…..imho
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 23rd, 2011
9:12 pm
I remember as a kid (pre-driving days) being sent across the street by my Dad with a one-gallon metal gas can and a quarter in order to get gas to mow the lawn.
Came back with a full gas can nearly every time.
md
August 23rd, 2011
9:12 pm
Is it just me, or are the gremlins back with the postings out of order again?
josef
August 23rd, 2011
9:13 pm
Phillips 66…gave the Indians a pretty good deal…seriously…
Schrodingers cat
August 23rd, 2011
9:14 pm
josef…do any of those Buckheads represent the south?
To be honest
I can’t think of one locale that does
josef
August 23rd, 2011
9:15 pm
BRUNO
SE
Dusty
August 23rd, 2011
9:16 pm
Dave R
You bake your own cake and I’ll slam my own slam. A grand slam is a grand slam, bub! You must be a cubs fan. At 5 to 0 Braves leading..I’d be touchy too if I supported the Cubs. GO BRAVES
You make, it, bake it, hit it ;or hammer it. It’s still A GRAND SLAM
Bruno
August 23rd, 2011
9:17 pm
Well, there is Old Buckhead, Real Buckhead, Buckhead Wannabe and Faux Buckhead…we know who’s who!
I remember by pizza delivery days in the early 80s in Buckhead well. Got more $5 tips there than in any other part of town. And very gracious people to boot. The only dark spot was totaling my Toyota Corolla in front of the shop where Habersham crosses Roswell Rd.
Schrodingers cat
August 23rd, 2011
9:17 pm
Dave R – $0.46.9/gal when I started driving…2 yrs after was getting airplane fuel at peachtree dekalb….cousin’ jimmy had a hemi cuda….can’t believe we survived those days
josef
August 23rd, 2011
9:18 pm
CAT
Old Buckhead and Real Buckhead do…the former are those who were here before the immigration of the 1980s…Real Buckhead are those from other parts of the South and their own community’s equivalents to Old Buckhead…neither holds the Wannabe or the Faux element in particularly high regard…
I’ve got a great neighbor down the street (Old Buckhead) who told her new next-door Faux Buckhead, “Dahling, I lived in Buckhead when it was an urban renewal project,”
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 23rd, 2011
9:22 pm
Sorry to disappoint you, Dusty, but I’m a Boston Red Sox fan through and through. That would be the team that has a major league record of over 650 consecutive sellouts at Fenway Park (the best damned ball park in the country, IMO), and the team that, when inter-league play happens, sells out the parks they visit as well – including Turner Field – which couldn’t fill their park if they gave away tickets.
Just sayin’!
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 23rd, 2011
9:22 pm
LOL – the mid 70’s Buckhead had about 5 bars and adult theaters
Schrodingers cat
August 23rd, 2011
9:23 pm
Buckhead must have changed…admittedly i’ts be 12 plus yrs sice I ventured
back then, the first ? a woman would ask is ….”what kinda car do you drive?”…very pretentious days…may have been later….Ibut haven’t been there since….did cabbage town before a Braves game a yr or so ago and really enjoyed it
Dusty
August 23rd, 2011
9:23 pm
Mick,
I read the funniest story about shot up gangsters being buried in New Jersey. Written in N.J.slang!!Then the gangsters moved to Miami and had to throw the bodies in the ocean. It was hilarious!! You’d love the humor of it all. Shall I send you a copy?
Disgusted
August 23rd, 2011
9:23 pm
Course, when gas was under a buck, hitting the right amount on the fly was a lot easier than it is today!
Anybody else remember the manual gas pumps whereby you cranked the amount of gas you wanted into the glass recepticle overhead, then let gravity put the gas in the tank? I hope I’m not the oldest person on here. In those days, you didn’t concern yourself with achieving a discrete monetary amount. You figured out what you could afford or needed, and then cranked the handle. I recall those days at McClung’s General Store, where overalls, various groceries, nails, and occasional salted fish in barrels were available.
The old-timers sat on the nail kegs near the coal stove, swapping yarns. The all-time favorite yarn was told by Lew Carter, who recounted how he drove 600 miles from Detroit without a battery. Another “yarner” was Pat Call, who after recounting various tales of his bravery, was rescued after getting caught in his overalls by a barbed wire fence he had tried to climb under on the way home at night. He had fouled his pants while trying to extricate himself.
Egads! That has been more than 60 years ago. How precious it was to grow up in the country!
TruthBe
August 23rd, 2011
9:26 pm
josef, If we wanted to here from a thug like you we would have ask you. Bud out reject of affirmative action wantabe.
josef
August 23rd, 2011
9:28 pm
CAT
What kind of car do you drive? Faux Buckead,,,Where are yo’uh people from? Real Buckhead…
Yo’uh name is N….are you related to the Chahl-stun N’s…Old Buckhead…
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 23rd, 2011
9:29 pm
Man, that’s earlier than my time, disgusted.
Schrodingers cat
August 23rd, 2011
9:29 pm
huh?
TruthBe
August 23rd, 2011
9:29 pm
getalife, No, do you?
Schrodingers cat
August 23rd, 2011
9:30 pm
josef – i get it – Savannahesque
josef
August 23rd, 2011
9:31 pm
TruthBe…
If you only knew…
Pizzaman
August 23rd, 2011
9:32 pm
Idiots!
Dusty
August 23rd, 2011
9:32 pm
Dave R.
Red Sox? Boston? Oh yeah, I’ve heard of them. Nice lil’ team. I stuck around Boston for two years going to school.. Never got around to seeing any Red Sox. Somebody mentioned ol’ Fenway one time but I forgot about it. Filled the stadium? Free tickets?
Mick
August 23rd, 2011
9:32 pm
dusty
Sure, I get a kick out of that mob stuff. That’s why if you ever saw the soprano’s, they were pretty accurate in the portrayal of mobsters, many of the actual hit man are quite a few cards short of a full deck…
Schrodingers cat
August 23rd, 2011
9:32 pm
or my favorite…Charleston
Uncle Jed
August 23rd, 2011
9:34 pm
Common Sense isn’t very Common
August 23rd, 2011
8:28 pm
Josef – how has back to school been so far?
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Rhetorical question, right?
(today must have been a bitch)
Schrodingers cat
August 23rd, 2011
9:35 pm
Sure, I get a kick out of that mob stuff. That’s why if you ever saw the soprano’s, they were pretty accurate in the portrayal of mobsters, many of the actual hit man are quite a few cards short of a full deck
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As a Sicilian I’d say you have no idea how wrong you are…
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 23rd, 2011
9:38 pm
Dusty, it’s an interesting thing about Red Sox fans; we’re everywhere. National League teams like the Braves beg to have the Sox added to their schedule (even if their won-lost record takes a hit) because we fill the seats no matter where the Sox go. The new Washington D.C. stadium had never been sold out – until the Red Sox came to town.
That’s why we’re called Red Sox Nation.
josef
August 23rd, 2011
9:39 pm
CAT
Savannah? Pretentious new com-uhs! It’s too bad we can’t adequately reproduce tones of voice here…but a few years back I was down in Savannah doing some file digging in the archives…a lovely old grande dame came over and said, “Ah see you ah researchin’ the Jews. Ahr Jewish histo-ri-uhn is he-ah today. If she would consent, would you like to speak with huh?” “Why by all means I’d be honored, if she would consent” A few minutes later a fellow blue-haired biddy came over and introduced herself, “Ah see you ah researchin the Levy’s. Did yo-uh fa-mi-lih come through Savannah?” My “no ma’am” elicted an “oh” with that tone of “you po-uh thang.” I smiled, “mine came through Charleston…” The next “oh” carried that rising tone of, “oh fo-give me mah effron-tuh-rih!”
Mick
August 23rd, 2011
9:40 pm
cat
I’m talking about the modern day low level mob guy, and like every other profession, sure there are top of the line mechanics – you get what you pay for, even in that world…
josef
August 23rd, 2011
9:41 pm
Uncle Jed…
Well, it was pretty good up until I came in here… but this has been fun, too…
out of the blue
August 23rd, 2011
9:43 pm
josef
August 23rd, 2011
8:56 pm
out of the blue
Didn’t expect you would…
Such a quaint and simplistic retort!
‘Well, there is Old Buckhead, Real Buckhead, Buckhead Wannabe and Faux Buckhead…we know who’s who.”
Oh, do you Josef? Ever been in Harrison’s? Carbo’s, Bucket Shop , Otto’s, Ivy’s, the cellar. Just to mention a few of Buckheads finest. In fact, over a couple of cool ones awhile back at Harrison’s Ron Hudspeth invited me to his July 4th party.
At several points in your postings Josef you are the most angry person on this blog